What is the best practice to store SSH keys in database?

Asked Nov 20 '17 at 07:03

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I am building rest APIs for an application in node.js, where user needs to upload their server details like, HostName UserName PrivateKey

Once the user uploads all the details I am retrieving permissions from the server and display them in table format.

I don't want the user to upload the same server details again and again, so how do I store the private key and other server details securely in MongoDB database.

What kind of encryption techniques should I use? I want to achieve this in node.js.

asked Nov 20 '17 at 07:03

Aditya Raval

You can use `bcrypt` module. – mayank bisht Nov 20 '17 at 07:05
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If you only want to compare the infos in order to avoid a re-upload of the dame data. Add all data together and hash them. Then you can compare the hashes. (you can use sha512 hashing algorithm) – Orelsanpls Nov 20 '17 at 09:04
is it safer approach to storing encrypted private key in the database(MongoDB)? – Aditya Raval Nov 20 '17 at 10:49
I don't only want it to be encrypted for comparison purpose, I will also need the original key in future to retrieve data from the server. – Aditya Raval Nov 20 '17 at 12:26

What is the best practice to store SSH keys in database?

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